Quaker Social Action (QSA) has backed a campaign to stop threatening debt collection letters that was debated in the UK parliament Commons Treasury committee last month.
Quaker bodies are among 108 organisations that have signed a declaration called: ‘Save the European Peace Project.’
The Quaker-founded Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has outlined how the government can ‘call time on the injustice of in-work poverty’ following recent proposals to tackle the…
Quakers gathered at Mount Street Meeting House in Manchester last week to discuss the benefits of Land Value Tax (LVT). Speakers on 1 June came from the Coalition for Economic…
Friends at Yearly Meeting were keen to mark the centenary of the groundbreaking photograph of the total solar eclipse by Quaker Arthur Eddington which confirmed Albert Einstein’s…
European and Middle East Young Friends (EMEYF) has released its epistle from the 2019 Spring Gathering that took place in Peski, Russia last month.
There was shock and concern among Quakers last week when it was discovered that the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg took part in an event at Friends House in Euston.
Reading Quakers held an ‘information event’ about the European elections this month. Jessica Metheringham, the outgoing parliamentary engagement officer at Britain Yearly…
The Quaker MEP Molly Scott Cato refused to take part in a European election hustings in Gloucester Cathedral because the panel included a UKIP member.
Members of the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) were among the 30,000 people who took part in a march against nationalism and hate in Berlin this month. The ‘Ein Europa…
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